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L. B. BYRNE.

BUTTON, STUD, LOCKET, OR OTHER ARTICLE OF JEWELRY.

No. 373,514. Patented Nov. 22, 1887.

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LUKE B. BYRNE, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

BUTTON, STUD, LOCKET, OR OTHER ARTICLE OF JEWELRY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 373.514. dated November 22, 1887.

Application filed May 26,1887. Serial No. 239,379.

To all whom it may concern:

Le it known that I, LUKE B. BYRNE, of Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Buttons or Studs and other Articles of Jewelry, of which the following is a specification.

My improvement consists in a frame of novel construction for the front or head of a button, stud, locket, ring-head, or analogous article of jewelry. Such frame consists in the combination of a rim-piece, a plate adapted to fit within one edge of the rim-piece and provided with flanges or projections for overlapping the same, and corner-pieces or analogous parts adapted to be fitted between the said flanges or projections, so as to cover the portions of the plate intermediate of the flanges or projections and to extend over the continuous portions of the rim-piece. In this Way an ornamental frame may be made at a trifling expense, and where cheap metal is used having a plated exterior a continuous surface of the plating may be exposed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side view of a rim-piece such as I have described. Fig. 2 is an edge view of this rimpiece. Fig. 3 is a face view of a plate'provided with projections or flanges,which I have described. Fig. 4 is a transverse section of the same upon an enlarged scale, the section being taken at the plane of the dotted line 0000, Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a face view of the saidplate fitted to the rim-piece, and with three of the corner-pieces in place and the fourth omitted. Fig. 6 is a transverse section of the rim-piece and plate fitted together, the section being taken at the plane of the dotted line 3 3 Fig. 5, and being made on an enlarged scale. Fig. 7 is another transverse section of the said piece on the same scale,the section being taken at the plane of the dotted line 2 z, Fig. 5.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures.

A designates the rim-picce. It is made of a fiat piece of metal bent flatwise into the form of a frame. As shown, it is of rectangular form, but has the corners rounded. The metal of which it is made may be of brass plated with gold or other metal, and in such case the metal will be so bent as to leave the plating at the exterior of the frame formed (No model.)

from it. The ends abutting together may be secured by solder or otherwise to complete the frame.

B designates the plate, which is combined with this rim-piece. This plate may be of any desirable material. It conforms to the rimpiece, and is of such a size that in the main it will fit within the same; but it is provided with projections or flanges b, which extend upwardly from it, and also outwardly, so as to overlap the upper edge of the rim piece. The projections or flanges b are shown as made integral with the plate. They are shown as located midway between the corners, and are four in number. The plate may be secured to the rim-piece by soldering the overlapping projections b to the edge of the rim-piece.

C designates corner pieces, which may be made of any suitable metal. They correspond to the corner portions of the plate B and the rim-piece A. They are of a width corresponding to the width of the projections or flanges b of the plate B, and they are arranged intermediate of such projections or flanges and in line therewith. They therefore extend over the intermediate portions of the plate B and also over the portions of the upper edge of the rimpiece that are intermediate of said projections or flanges. They may be secured by solder to the plate B and to the edge of the rim piece.

I do not wish to be limited to the particular shape of the parts described, as they may be varied to produce different ornamental effects. Any center-piece of stone or metal or other material may be used, in conjunction with a frame of the kind described herein.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a frame for an article ofjewelry, the combination of a rim-piece, a plate fitting the same and provided with projections or flanges for overlapping its edge, and corner-pieces or analogous parts secured to the rim-piece and the said plate intermediate of the projections or flanges of the plate, substantially as specified.

LUKE B. BYRNE.

Witnesses:

W. EDWARD FIsKE, E. F. HEDLY. 

